290 pages ; 21 cm

This volume addresses a problem of high controversy: relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been seen as a taboo, as only authentic testimonies, documents, or at least 'unliterary', prosaic approaches were considered appropriate for dealing with the topic. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies toward literarization, poetization, and ornamentalization. Nowadays, aesthetic approaches - also in provocative, taboo-breaking ways - are more and more regarded as important instruments to evoke the attention required for keeping the cataclysm in the collective memory. The contributions of the volume using examples predominantly from Polish, Czech, and German holocaust literature and culture focus on selected aspects of this complex of problems, such as: poetry of concentration camp detainees; lyrical poetry about the Holocaust; poetical tendencies in narrative literature and drama; 'ornamental prose' about the Holocaust; devices and functions of aestheticization in Holocaust literature and culture

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Reinhard Ibler -- Die Ästhetisierung des Holocaust: Diskussionen und Strategien = Aestheticizing the Holocaust: Discussions and Strategies -- Schreiben nach Auschwitz? Reaktionen der polnischen Literatur auf den Holocaust / Anja Golebiowski -- Ästhetik des (sekundären) Bildes in neuesten polnischen Dramen: Zyta Rudzkas Fastryga und Artur Pałygas Żyd / Katarzyna Adamczak -- Between the Post- and Popmemory. Holocaust Narrative in Contemporary Culture - an Attempt of Exemplification / Urszula Kowalska -- Die Transzendierung der Geschichte durch die Poetisierung der Darstellung in Jiří Weils Prosazyklus Barvy (Farben) / Andreas Ohme -- Jiří Weil : Žalozpěv za 77 297 oběti / Hana Hříbková -- "Und, da das Schweigen Gift mir wird im Munde, / Gebe ich weinend von der Schande Kunde". Karl Schnogs (1897-1967) satirische Holocaustdichtung / Charlotte Kitzinger -- Humour and Irony as Forms of Aestheticization of Shoah Narrations: the Play Doma u Hitlerů by Arnošt Goldflam / Agata Firlej -- Holocaustdichtung zwischen Poetizität und Prosaisierung = Holocaust Poetry between Poeticity and Prosaization -- Lyrische Grüsse an Deutschland - Manfred Herzfeld und andere 'ungeübte' Verfasser von Holocaustgedichten 1945 bis 1949 / Christiane Charlotte Weber -- Czech Bystanders Writing Poetry about the Shoah. Different Ways of Poetic Languages in the First Post-War Literary Reactions / Štěpán Balík -- Tadeusz Różewicz's Poetics of Testimony / Arkadiusz Morawiec -- Heimrad Bäckers Nachschrift und/als Zeugnisliteratur / Sascha Feuchert -- Towards the Unavoidable Silence: on the Shoah Context in Andrzej Sosnowski's Poetry / Anna Maria Skibska -- Das Erzählen des Holocaust zwischen Authentizität und Fiktionalität = Holocaust Narration between Authenticity and Fictionality -- Zwischen Dokument und Kunst: Josef Bors Werke über den Holocaust / Reinhard Ibler -- Jerzy Kosinskis "Autofiction" - eine mögliche Strategie, über den Holocaust zu schreiben? / Hans-Christian Trepte -- Arnošt Lustig's Colette, divka z Antverp - Between Historical Facts and Fiction / Jiří Holý -- The Film Colette - Risks of a "Modem" Approach to the Depiction of the Holocaust / Šárka Sladovníková -- Zeitbrücken. Erinnerungen an den Holocaust in Ivan Klímas Erzählband Moje nebezbečné výlety / Anna Artwińska -- Zum Motiv des Holocaust in der Vertreibungsliteratur / Marta Škubalová -- Personenverzeichnis = Index of Names

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